The Silent Seismic Revolution: Muslims
Leaving Islam

by Ali

24 Feb, 2008

Muslims in the West are uncritically taken by
Islam. Yet, those who have firsthand experience of living with the
sharia, think differently.

For 5 years now, I helped maintain a website for Indonesian
Muslims leaving Islam by translating articles critical of Islam in
English into Bahasa Indonesia. Thanks to the internet, these
articles made this ‘fastest growing religion’ look more like the
‘fastest sinking religion.’ By only shedding light on the real
Islam, the Islam that Muslims in the West are able to conceal, the
seeds of doubt in the minds of (Indonesian) Muslims have been
planted.

Those who left Islam due to our site was after having read that,
amongst others:

Muhammad at 53 consummated his marriage to a 9 year old,

Muhammad did NOT change women’s lives for the better,

Muhammad ordered to kill those who have left Islam, his
critics & 800 unarmed Medinan Jews, involved in raids & demanded
his share of the booty: and that his version of heaven would make
any Amsterdam whorehouse madam blush.

The most effective clinch was when one of our contributors
highlighted books written by prominent (so-called 'moderate')
Muslims proving exactly our points : that Aisha WAS 9 years old when
she was deflowered, that Islam's heaven WAS about the promise of
sex, that Jihad WAS about killing infidels & that prominent Muslims
themselves are confused about which is the real Islam [and that from
a religion which, above all, claims to be 'clear & concise'].

We survived despite several threats by Muslims to hack/destroy
our site/ destroy internet cafes which do not censor our site. We
have had special hate-sites set up to encounter us. Our readers were
several times intimidated by email or telephone. Yet our readership
has increased steadily.

In August 2007, we achieved our highest readership from 1,500 a
day to 5,000 a day with an average of 2,500/day. That is no mean
feat in a country where the internet is still a luxury. Going online
in an internet cafe can cost some of our regulars their weekly
salary (or physical harassment when you are unlucky enough to have
been caught reading our site by a pious Muslim).

We must be doing something right.

A precise total of how many people leave Islam due to our site is
difficult to obtain, yet one look at Google and one can see that
within 5 years, our site has gained prominence and is frequently
quoted by Indonesian Islamic sites. An article about how Allah's
inheritance law did not add up, for instance, was frequently quoted.

Muslims are also not in a hurry to announce their apostasy for
fear of being terrorized by the state, anti-apostasy movements,
family and community. One girl claimed that she had to move house
when the whole family decided to leave Islam. Taking off her hijab
was done as inconspicuous as possible, lest it would attract bad
publicity. In our site, there were at least two accounts of child
kidnapping by grandparents whose daughter-in-laws have left Islam.
We had a report of a whole village leaving Islam, yet the reporter
refused to announce the name for fear of repercussions.

OF course we have Muslims on our site too, condemning these
apostasy stories as 'Islamophobic,' 'fake, clobberdash', ‘part of a
Zionist/Christian conspiracy’ and that these ex-muslims ‘do not
understand Islam fully in the first place,’ BUT in the biggest
Muslim populated country like Indonesia, the proof is all around
you. In a country with first hand experience of living with Islam,
it is EASIER to convince Muslims in Muslim countries than
non-Muslims in non-Muslims countries that Islam has failed miserably
on its promises throughout its existence.

Islam is strong on myths and weak on proof, if one only has the
eyes to see it.

Promises of ‘a religion of peace,’ ‘tolerant’ & ‘pro-women’
conflict with daily reality. One quick look and Muslims see clearly
with their own eyes that without the participation of the hated
pig-eating-unhijabed-immoral infidels, the country would be nowhere.
This is especially true in case of natural disasters of which
Indonesia has aplenty. It is widely believed that the biggest
natural disaster happened for some divine reason in North Sumatera,
the first province which introduced the sharia law.

AS one of the biggest exporters of workers to the Middle East,
more and more cases highlighting the abuse of, especially, our
female workers, also invited grave doubts about the 'Islamic
brotherhood.' Physically and mentally abused, pregnant and even DEAD
female workers returning from Saudi are not an unfamiliar sight. In
fact, racism and discrimination towards workers not of Arabian
descent (let alone non-Muslim) in the Middle East are far, far worse
than ever encountered by Muslim workers in the 'evil infidel immoral
West.' Conduct a poll and I bet you that these workers would rather
be employed by kafirs !

We heard of cases of non-Muslims being asked not to join their
Muslim relatives praying for their dead; of Muslims calling their
non-Muslim friends 'najis', i.e. 'morally dirty' and refusing to
receive food from a non-Muslim household etc. raised more and more
questions about Islam. Phrases from Muslims like : 'The feet of a
Muslim is cleaner than the head of a non-Muslim', speak for
themselves.

So are Indonesian-Muslims' obsession with Jews & Palestine. Islam
made Indonesian Muslims born out of Hindu/Buddhist ancestors with a
4000 year culture feel more Arab than the Arabs themselves. Our last
most civilised 16 century Hindu kingdom was destroyed by the crown
prince who became a jihadi and called his own father, the tolerant
and most revered Brawijaya, a 'Budha kafir kufur'. Yet this part of
our history had been completely concealed from the classrooms for
fear of upsetting Muslims.

The country once world famous for its Hindu and animist culture
is now slowly becoming Arabized. Mecca has replaced our ancestors'
Hindu temples. Headscarves replaced flowers in women's traditional 'kondes'
(hair in buns). Even hair is now condemned as 'jahiliyah', ie from
the pre-islamic 'ignorant' age ! The warm smiles, touch, flirtatious
but harmless chats by women street sellers are now considered
'immoral.' Waiting for a bus at 7pm with a red lipstick in your
handbag can invite accusation of prostitution by the Indramayu
sharia moral police.

In Indonesia currently, we have 41 church leaders jailed, merely
for praying aloud that 'Muslims may come to Christ.' 3
Sunday-teachers were released from a THREE year JAIL sentence for
giving Bibles to Muslim pupils (on the agreement of their parents).
Promises of the sharia law only applying to Muslims in North
Sumatera also proved to be a lie when non-Muslim pupils were also
obliged by decree to wear the hijab.

The proof is all around you.

Many letters we received were also from ex-Muslims who left Islam
before they even encountered our site.

One ex-Muslim said that he cannot accept the Muslim theory that
Mother Teresa will not go into heaven, merely due to the fact that
she was an infidel. A woman left Islam after seeing her friend's
heartache and dilemma when her husband took another wife; objecting
to this second marriage will only cause her husband to Islamically
divorce her too easily without any Islamic obligation to maintaining
her welfare (like 'democracy, 'alimony' was invented by the West).
For another ex-Muslim, the last nail in the Islamic coffin came
after her own family member was killed in the Bali bombing.

Maybe that is why our site became so successful, it merely
articulated systematically what has been there all along. We did not
present anything new, we only repeated this simple rule : the more
Islamic a country becomes, the more intolerant it will be. The proof
is around you if only one has the eyes to see.

That is why our readers also expressed disbelief by the West's
ignorance in allowing Muslims to proselytise their religion,
including the right to apply to sound their loudspeakers for the
call of prayers (see: Oxford), when churches are NEVER allowed to
sound their bells in ANY Muslim country.

Muslims in Muslim countries do not have time for political
correctness either. Many have the courage to sue their countries to
allow them to leave Islam. See recent cases of Lina Joy in Malaysia
and Ahmed Hegazy in Egypt. Their loss in court should show us all
the same that in a Muslim country, Islamic law will never allow
Muslims the right to freedom of religion.

See also cases of Muslims in Muslim countries who have ended up
dead or jailed for criticizing Islam or carrying out their right to
choose a religion of their choice. The most recent case I can think
of is that of the young Egyptian, Abdel Kareem Nabil Sulaiman.

These apostasy cases are but small steps for ex-Muslims and a
giant leap for mankind. They reflect a seismic movement in Islam's
1,400 years of unchallenged history.

Yet extraordinarily, the Western media (except for Channel 4)
have neglected to report this phenomenon. Even the BBC (with plenty
of stringers in the Middle East & the Far East) looked the other
way! I wonder why!